Peter Probst What Is African Art? (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is African Art?Condition: NewSubtitle: A Short HistoryISBN-10: 022679301XEAN: 9780226793016ISBN: 9780226793016Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/21/2022Description: A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies “African art” as a conceptual vessel that manifests wider societal transformations. What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field’s history. Starting with the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the book first discusses the colonial formation of the field by focusing on the role of museums, collectors, and photography in disseminating visual cultures as relations of power. It then explores the remaking of the field at the dawn of African independence with the shift toward contemporary art and the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it examines the post- and decolonial reconfiguration of the field driven by questions of representation, repair, and restitution. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmAuthor: Peter ProbstGenre: Arts & PhotographyItem Weight: 708gRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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